| 1 | Saif Saaeed Shaheen | QAT | |
8:04,39 |
| 2 | Ezekiel Kemboi | KEN | |
8:05,11 |
| 3 | Eliseo Martín | ESP | |
8:09,09 |
| 4 | Bouabdallah Tahri | FRA | 8:10,65 | |
| 5 | Abraham Cherono | KEN | 8:13,37 | |
| 6 | Luis Miguel Martín | ESP | 8:13,52 | |
| 7 | Simon Vroemen | NED | 8:13,71 | |
| 8 | José Luis Blanco | ESP | 8:17,16 | |
| 9 | Jukka Keskisalo | FIN | 8:17,72 | |
| 10 | Ali Ezzine | MAR | 8:19,15 | |
| 11 | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | JPN | 8:19,29 | |
| 12 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin | QAT | 8:28,37 | |
| 13 | Abdelkader Hachlaf | MAR | 8:35,17 | |
| Reuben Kosgei | KEN | DNF | ||
| Luleseged Wale | ETH | DNS |